Texas Dems panic over ‘Miss Frijoles’ attack on Rep. Mayra Flores funded by opponent

A Texas blogger has called newly elected Texas Rep. Mayra Flores, a Hispanic Republican, “Miss Frijoles” 21 times since it was paid for advertising by, Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzales’s campaign for advertising.

The newly-elected congresswoman brought attention to the caustic language in a tweet on Friday morning, where she reclaimed the slur for herself.

“My far left opponent, Vincent Gonzalez, hired a local blogger to run hateful & racist ads against me!,” read the post.

“But, I love frijoles & I grew up eating frijoles. I am not embarrassed of my upbringings & frijoles w/tortillas de harina is simply the best. Here's to Miss Frijoles 2022 #TX34.”

Gonzalez’s campaign wrote a $1,200 check to The McHale Report on June 24, three days before blogger Jerry McHale first used the derogatory term on his site, according to campaign finance disclosures cited by NBC News.

The blog has called the Texas Latina “Miss Frijoles” 21 times total but has not published any Gonzalez ads.

The Gonzalez campaign denied any connection and that the timing was coincidental in a statement to NBC.

The Democratic blogger has also made multiple derogatory references to Flores’s private parts, according to posts uncovered by Fox News.

In a post published June 18, McHale asked "DOES FLORES WANT TRUMP TO COME & TAKE HER P**SY???"

In another on July 2, he quoted an individual named “Maclovio O’Malley” as having said, "Who does this Mayra Flores think she is? Somebody said she was crowned Miss Frijoles 2022 in San Benito. She isn't in Congressman Vicente Gonzalez's league. She isn't even in the bush leagues unless she doesn't shave her p**sy."

McHale told Fox News that the blog posts are “satire” and claimed Gonzalez’s campaign did not pay him to criticize Flores or “anything specific.” He also said he had “no problem with” calling Flores “Miss Frijoles.”

“I am a liberal Democrat. And it’s war against the Republican ... I’m going to be merciless with her,” he told NBC News.

Currently representing Texas’s 15th Congressional District, Gonzalez declared that he would be running against Flores in the 34th, which she won in a special election after the incumbent Democrat resigned to join Akin Gump, the largest lobbying firm in the U.S.

A week after Flores’s victory, the Democrat told Newsweek, “I wasn’t born in Mexico… I didn’t come here through chain migration, I didn’t come through asylum or amnesty or whatever.”

He also referred to the Republican woman as “unqualified,” which NBC noted is often considered sexist.